New Class, New Rules Trump Said That He Is Ordering a May, N.J., on June 2

MILITARY FACES MLB Air Force: B-52 bomber To ‘Father Brown’ star D-Backs’ Bumgarner joined dual-carrier drill Mark Williams, actor’s returns to mound, tries in the South China Sea life is a leap of faith to stay healthy in camp Page 3 Page 14 Back page Heavy rain, landslide threats prompt Sasebo Naval Base to close » Page 4 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 57 ©SS 2020 TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK Berlin: Germany has spent over $1B to cover US troop costs From staff and wire reports The German government has paid more than $1 billion over the past decade to cover costs related to the stationing of U.S. troops in Germany, according to the finance ministry in Berlin. The ministry provided the figures in reply to a query from opposition Left Party lawmaker Brigitte Freihold. The reply was first reported by German news agency dpa. The German government paid 982.4 million euros ($1.1 billion) between 2010 and 2019 for the U.S. military presence, according to the finance ministry. Of that, 648.5 million euros was for con- struction and 333.9 million euros was for “ defense follow-up costs,” Freihold said in a statement. She did not clarify what defense follow-up costs were. “The German taxpayer is sup- porting global human rights violations that lead to refugee movements and terror,” at the ex- pense of community schools and hospitals, she said. Ramstein Air Base, near Kai- serslautern, was “a hub for global Petty Officer 2nd U.S. warfare,” where “environ- Class Joshua Duran mental damage and ‘noise ter- instructs recruits at ror’” from military aircraft are U.S. Coast Guard daily occurrences, she said. Training Center Cape Last month, President Donald New class, new rules Trump said that he is ordering a May, N.J., on June 2. For new cadets major reduction in troop strength arriving at the Coast in Germany, from around 34,500 Guard Academy in personnel down to 25,000. New London, Conn., Coast Guard alters training for incoming cadets due to virus Germany wasn’t notified of the this week for Swab move, which came after Trump Summer, there will branded the NATO ally “delin- be no haircuts, no BY PAT EATON-ROBB through it two years ago. quent” for not meeting a goal set drilling, no running Associated Press Ellie Hiigel and the 266 other swabs will be ar- in 2014 for members to halt budget as a group and riving not as one large group, but in eight separate cuts and move toward spending at NEW LONDON, Conn . — There will be nobody no lining up in platoons spaced out throughout Wednesday. There least 2% of gross national product screaming in the face of 18-year-old Ellie Hiigel when the barracks for will be no haircuts, no drilling, no running as a group on defense by 2024. Trump has she arrives Wednesday for training in advance of her pushups because from place to place, no lining up against the wall in stressed that the German econo- first year at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and that has of COVID-19. the hall of the barracks for pushups. They won’t even my benefits from spending by the her mother a bit disappointed. be issued their uniforms. The big ceremony at the end U.S. troops based there. JOSALYN BROWN The school in Connecticut, like other service acad- According to NATO figures, U.S. Coast Guard of that first day on the parade field in front of their emies and military training centers, has made major Germany is spending about 1.38% families also has been cancelled. changes because of the coronavirus pandemic. That of GDP on its defense budget. Ber- Their contact with the third-year cadets who will means the eight weeks of boot camp for new cadets, lin aims to hit 1.5% by 2024 and train them, known as the cadre, will come from a so- known as “Swab Summer“ will be much different from insists that this level of spending when Joanna Hiigel went through it herself in 1991 as a cial distance. allows it to meet NATO’s defense fourth-class swab, or even when Ellie’s sister, Tana, went SEE CADETS ON PAGE 5 planning goals. PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, July 7, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Delayed $8B Atlantic Coast Pipeline canceled Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9395 Euro costs (July 7) ................................ $1.11 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.05 Dollar buys (July 7) ...........................€0.8605 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.8624 British pound (July 7)........................... $1.22 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press anticipated delays” for the 600- opposition from many landown- Japanese yen (July 7) ........................105.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (July 7) ............1,166.00 mile project designed to cross ers, activists and environmental Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance RICHMOND, Va. — The de- for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 West Virginia and Virginia into advocates . Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For velopers of the long-delayed, $8 British pound .....................................$1.2509 North Carolina. Reaction poured in Sunday nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3536 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline purchasing British pounds in Germany), The companies said a recent from the project’s opponents, who China (Yuan) .........................................7.0175 announced the cancellation of the check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ................................6.5779 pair of court rulings that have lauded the demise of the project. facility. Commercial rates are interbank multi-state natural gas project Egypt (Pound) ....................................16.0300 rates provided for reference when buying thrown into question a permitting “If anyone still had questions Euro ........................................$1.1328/0.8828 Sunday, citing uncertainties about currency. All figures are foreign currencies Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7501 costs, permitting and litigation. program used around the nation about whether or not the era of to one dollar, except for the British pound, Hungary (Forint) .................................311.43 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, Despite a victory last month at to approve oil and gas pipelines fracked gas was over, this should Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.4579 the United States Supreme Court and other utility work through answer them. Today is a historic Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.54 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) wetlands and streams presented victory for clean water, the cli- Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3077 INTEREST RATES over a critical permit, Dominion Norway (Krone) ...................................9.3760 Energy and Duke Energy said in “new and serious challenges.” mate, public health, and our com- Philippines (Peso).................................49.29 Prime rate ................................................3.25 a news release that “recent devel- The massive infrastructure munities,” Sierra Club Executive Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.94 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7509 Federal funds market rate ...................0.08 opments have created an unac- project, announced with much Director Michael Brune said in a Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3914 3-month bill ............................................. 0.15 ceptable layer of uncertainty and fanfare in 2014, had drawn fierce statement. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,191.94 30-year bond ...........................................1.43 WEATHER OUTLOOK TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 71/65 Kabul 83/58 Seoul 78/67 Baghdad 112/81 Kandahar 102/78 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 78/66 77/72 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 62/51 61/51 76/69 Iwakuni 74/71 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 96/90 Brussels 64/53 Guam 110/88 67/53 Ramstein 77/72 83/80 Lajes, 65/42 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 113/80 113/86 68/65 66/51 70/58 Aviano/ Vicenza 72/62 Naples 87/71 Okinawa Morón 83/80 108/68 Sigonella Rota 91/64 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 104/85 89/68 79/73 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 14 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 19-24 Tuesday, July 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY McCampbell B-52 joined drills heads home for refit and with 2 carriers in new mission Stars and Stripes The guided-missile destroyer South China Sea USS McCampbell is returning to the United States and a new homeport after 13 years at Yoko- BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS “totally out of ulterior motives” suka Naval Base, Japan, the Navy and undermined stability in the Stars and Stripes announced Saturday. area, according to The Associ- “McCampbell has been a work- A B-52 Stratofortress bomber ated Press. horse for the theater commanders flew halfway across the world to “Against such a backdrop, the join two aircraft carriers in an U.S. deliberately dispatched mas- ensuring a free and open Indo- exercise

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